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Originally Posted by sportscurmudgeon
Here's a note to all the people who use the following as their knee-jerk retort:
"How many Super Bowl Rings does XXX have?"
Well, if that is the definitive criterion, answer this queston for me: Would you throw Joe Gibbs under the bus the instant that Chuck Noll said he'd like to try coaching again? Remember, Noll has four Super Bowl rings and never lost a Super Bowl game the way Gibbs did.
The correct answer xto that question is no, you wouldn't.
But it's not because of "the rings" and how many there are. If that is all it's about, you'd flip a coin between Joe Gibbs and Tom Brady as your coach. does that make any sense to anyone?
Joe Gibbs is one hell of a coach. But to players who are in thier 20s today, (such as L. Coles) what Givvs did in the 1980s is ancient history. Joe Gibbs' accomplishments are more similar to George Halas' accomplishments than they are to Bill Belichick's accomplishments.
We have Warpath posters here whose age preculdes them ever having seen some truly great players such as Jim Brown or Bobby Mitchell or Chuck Bednarik or NIght Train Lane. It is hard for them to put these players in perspective with current players; that's understandable. And that is why young players might not be awed by the idea of playing for Joe Gibbs. To some of then, he's a dinosaur that came back from the past. And the only frame of reference they have for such a situation is the movie Jurassic Park - - and that was not a totally pleasant experience.
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Don't think that today's younger players don't know who Gibbs is and don't respect his accomplishments. When he walked in the room to address the team for the first time it was said you could hear a pin drop.
A Hall of Fame coach with 3 rings will bring respect in any era.
If Lombardi rose from the grave today and walked into a team's locker room, does anyone think "today's player" wouldn't respect him?
Today's player might not be awed by a coach like Gibbs, but I'd bet the majority of them have a huge amount of respect for him.